What things do you do with your 6 year old?

[BertieBotts]

I need to spend more time one on one with DS, but I'm feeling uninspired. He always wants to play games (board games, card games, computer games) together but I don't want to do that. We also read together, sometimes draw/paint together, go for walks. Feeling a bit like I've lost the connection and it would be great to get it back.

Make Lego models together?
Go geocaching?

Sorry not got that many ideas as mostly we play card games, board games, read, walk, swim!

DS is 5...recently we have:
Been to cinema
Baked cakes
Had a picnic
Gone for walks
Done homework together
Exercised
Danced together
Made silly videos of each other

I have a just 7 year old girl and we often bake together, nothing fancy just fairy cakes that she can decorate with smarties. Sometimes we build a model out of empty boxes, or make a book, play with her dolls (yawn), have a film night. We got in the paddling pool together in summer, and sometimes have a bath together in winter and play with her water toys.

We also go swimming, to the playground, out on bikes together, to the cinema or museum. I prefer to do things out of the house because it's easy to get sidetracked by housework or TV and internet at home.

Boardgames always bored me too.

It's been a while since mine were 6, but...

Go out and collect conkers, go swimming, build a big pile of leaves and jump in them, make pizza, make popcorn, go to the library and choose a pile of books, build a den in the living room, go out and fly a kite.

Enjoy them while they are little. They turn into Strikethrough: grumpy independent teenagers very quickly.

Hmmmm, ride bike, playground, go for walk, see a movie, watch a DVD, do craft, read books. She's just become old enough that I sometimes ask her top help me with jobs eg feeding the animals. I have to remind myself to actually stop my busy busy adult life and spend some time doing kid stuff, I find it quite difficult.

Same here ginger!

I don't mind a card game or a decent board game but most of his board games are quite boring. Will look forward to playing some more interesting/challenging ones in a couple of years.

Library we must do - keep meaning to get around to that!

Throwing stones in the river. Skimming or trying to hit a target. May stand him in good stead for the cricket club.

It's free and taught me to throw less like a girly. Shoulders ache for days after though.

With my DS age 7 we: go on a bike ride together, go to a museum or historical site together, go out to a cafe together and chat over hot chocolate, lego building, snuggle in bed and reading together, do playmobile battles together (although I find this soooo tedious), go swimming together.